fleeting (adj.)
- abrupt
- blunt
- brief
- brittle
- brusque
- capricious
- changeable
- compendious
- corruptible
- crusty
- curt
- deciduous
- dying
- ephemeral
- evanescent
- fading
- fickle
- fly-by-night
- flying
- fragile
- frail
- fugacious
- fugitive
- gruff
- impermanent
- impetuous
- impulsive
- inconstant
- insubstantial
- laconic
- melting
- momentary
- mortal
- mutable
- passing
- perishable
- short
- short-lived
- succinct
- temporal
- temporary
- terse
- transient
- transitive
- transitory
- unstable
- volatile
Thus heavenly hope is all serene,
But earthly hope, how bright soe'er,
Still fluctuates o'er this changing scene,
As false and fleeting as 't is fair.
Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man,—yesterday in embryo, to-morrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hair's-breadth of time assigned to thee live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.
This world is all a fleeting show,
For man's illusion given;
The smiles of joy, the tears of woe,
Deceitful shine, deceitful flow,—
There's nothing true but Heaven.
Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view.
